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More like the Hindenburg
Hillary Rodham Clinton biographer Carl Bernstein has a fascinating post at cnn.com about her plan to land the vice-presidential spot on the Obama ticket. Titled Could Clinton land the VP nomination?, her plan to end her campaign and win the vice presidential spot is to blackmail and threaten Obama: Take me on as your vice…
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Obama comes to Albany, Oregon
Sen. Obama meets his fans, er, voters (Jesse Skoubo/Democrat-Herald) A beaming Katie Egan, 18, reaches out in a sea of hands to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama as he made his entrance to a Town-hall style forum Friday at the Linn County Fair & Expo center in Albany, Oregon. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Bush's use of secret law
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'Ronnie'
I’m told it’s difficult to do, mistaking a transvestite for a woman, which is what Brazilian soccer star and World Cup hero said he did recently. Now, he may have a hard time facing ridicule from fans and opponents. Ronald, still only 31, has battled weight problems and injuries in recent years. He’s in Brazil…
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'BOYS DON'T CRY'
Woman Arrested in Norway for Impersonating Teen A 33-year-old Czech woman has been arrested for attending a Norwegian school, and then claiming abuse, as a 13-year-old boy. But the strange story in Norway is just the beginning of an even stranger story of child abuse in the Czech Republic. The bizarre case of a Czech…
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Jim Webb wrote
of Class Struggle in the Wall Street Journal opinion editorial page. Some people think Sen. Barack Obama does not understand poor working people. I am not one of them. Obama came into politics because it has been his life’s work helping working people. I understand Webb has other assets (and liabilities), but if he’s who…
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Obama's VP choice
My own candidate for Democratic Party vice-presidential nominee would be Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, D-KS. She is a wildly popular, twice-elected governor of a reliably Republican state, Kansas. She has a reputation as a consensus builder who works across the party lines to get the job done for voters. I had also thought that she may…
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Noonan: 'Damsel of Distress'
I am sorry to say this but I hate Peggy Noonan. She helped propagate evil policies under the elder Bush. She continues to play a corrosive role in American public life with her column on the Opinion-Editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. But, in today’s paper, she rightly excoriates Hillary Rodham Clinton for her…
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'*esque'
Alan Chin shot this photograph of Sen. Barack Obama in Ohio for BagNewsNotes, one of my favorite blogs. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin